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A very funny thing happened to me yesterday. A recruiter called me about a position he had, and it is literally my old job at AOL, The position is for mail.aol.com. Of course the recruiter asked if I could refer a friend to him. (And why would I want to give a free referral bonus to him when I personally know the hiring manager?) So if anybody reading this post desires to work on an email app then please leave your email address right here in a comment!But this begs the question(s), am I the only interaction designer who feels less than inspired by the thought of maintaining a UI for email? Is this type of work really appropriate for a senior designer? Did I get the feeling in my Google interviews that they were eager to fob off the mail-designer role too? I wonder if this is the same at Yahoo?

I started a new job. I am very very pleased to be contracting at an exciting 'web 2.0' company. It's unlike any other place I've worked for. Their color palate consists of only 4 colors. Can you guess who it is? (no it's not google) It's very interesting to be back at a start up. First impressions?

I am the only designer out of over 50 employees90% of my coworkers are guysNo phone? no problemThe kitchen smells funnyEverybody can see/hear/smell everything I doYou can find me on the Yahoo! messenger whilst at this job.

I thought it would be interesting to see how cities on Craigslist compare to each other when looking for jobs in the web design/information design category. Here's a side by side image made from last weeks Craigslist postings April 2nd-6th showing; San Francisco Bay Area, Washington DC Area, Seattle, Portland, New York City, & Los Angeles.

New York City has the most jobs...but who actually wants to live in a 400 square foot studio apartment or pay $4000/month in rent? Not me.

SF Bay Area is has the most per personThere's just more work here per capita. But who actually wants to live in a 800 square foot apartment that costs $2000 to rent? Sux.